Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

Prerequisities

1. Create an account in AWS.

2. Generate an AWS access key ID and AWS secret access key by navigating through the following path: IAM → Users → Access Keys → Create access key.

3. Install the required packages to execute the AWS Functions. If packages are already installed, ignore this step.

   Below are the steps to install the packages in client machine:

   1. Change the directory to C:\jiffyservice\precompile\connector\requirements.

   2. Execute the following command in the windows command prompt.

      pip install -r aws.txt –user

Designing A Task using AWS Node

1. In the Task Design screen, click on the << icon to expand the Nodes section.

2. Drag and drop the AWS node from the Connector Nodes section and connect the node with the Start and End nodes respectively.

   

3. Double-click on the AWS node to display the Attributes pane.

   

4. The following options are available in the Actions tab:

   1. AWS Function: When the user selects the AWS Function option, pre-defined AWS Functions are available in the list box following it. Read about AWS Functions to know more.

   2. Custom AWS Function: JIFFY.ai provides a feature to allow users to create their own custom AWS Functions as required.

   3. Set Variable: The user can set a variable inside the AWS node. The value to be set can either be a constant or another variable. If this variable is set as an output variable in the Properties tab, it can be made available for other nodes as well.

   4. Predefined Function: These are JIFFY.ai provided python functions for the commonly used functions. Read about Predefined Functions to know more.

   5. User defined Function: JIFFY.ai provides a feature to allow users to create custom python functions and use them in the Actions tab. Read about User Defined Functions to know more.

5. Choose the required option in the drop-down and select the required function in the Actions tab.

   Create Instance (XYZ, ABC, ami-000000, JiffyInstance, us-east-2, Instance, t2.nano, Key).

6. Click on the ≡ icon beside the selected function name and specify the required input parameters. Read more about this here.

7. Click on the Properties tab and provide the required details.

8. Save the task and then click on the Trial run icon to execute the task.

9. Click on the AWS node and then click on the Result icon to view the Result of execution.

10. An AWS instance will be created with the provided details.